Fedora Project

Red Hat is the primary sponsor of Fedora Project and provides hosting, engineering and other resources. It has several hundred active developers participating and leading the project in different ways in coordination with the volunteer community members. It is a highly successful model pioneered by Red Hat within the Fedora Project that has inspired several other distributions and other free and open source projects.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Upstream Focus

Fedora Project has a strong focus on staying close to upstream projects as much as possible in all the different software it includes in the repository. The primary goal is to share the benefits of a common codebase for end users and developers while simultaneously reducing unnecessary maintenance efforts.

Free Desktop

Desktop Software

Firefox: we added support for the GTK+2 and GTK+3 toolkits. Pango support, GNOME Integration. Current upstream contributions include security patches, and co-ownership of various linux-specific pieces of the project.

GNOME Shell - Primary development by Owen Taylor and many Red Hat developers and interaction designers

Other

cdparanoia - maintained

Upstream Developers

This is not a comprehensive list of all developers on major upstream projects but just some well known Red Hat employeees from the past and now to show the breadth and depth of Red Hat sponsored development.